on the scrapheap

Every year in Europe, ten million vehicles end up on the scrapheap.

I know plenty of graduates on the scrapheap - I'm one myself.

It has always seemed wrong to me that someone reaches a certain age and is then thrown on the scrapheap.

The gradual permanent approach would put on the scrapheap persons with years of knowledge and experience.

He liked the way female models were thrown on the scrapheap by their late twenties.

They seem very keen to cast people on the scrapheap if they've run into any sort of misfortune.

The national ID card scheme is also on the scrapheap.

"I find things on the scrapheap of history that I know don't belong there."

The blockade, or chocolate guideline, really belongs on the scrapheap of European development.

Wolverhampton, once the jewel in the crown of British manufacturing, now finds itself on the scrapheap.

You're on the scrapheap - coem to our classes and learn how to use a mop.

Loads of people thrown on the scrapheap.

If he failed to fool Roditis, he'd be on the scrapheap by nightfall.

Modesty and understatement are passé, languishing on the scrapheap of human virtues.

Yet they risk their careers being thrown on the scrapheap because the first thing that happens upon academy conversion is the senior management team are made redundant.

There is an unparalleled number of old cars on the roads in Finland, which in other countries would have ended up on the scrapheap by now.

Paterno provided insight into the former Penn State all-American at a time when Collins was on the scrapheap.

"I love what I used to do and I hate being tossed on the scrapheap," Mr. August said recently.

He believes that once scientists begin proposing moral norms in papers, supernatural moral systems will join "astrology, witchcraft and Greek mythology on the scrapheap".

He and his wife toiled almost round the clock for seven years to make a success of their T-shirt design and print business - only to land on the scrapheap.

The little locomotive ended up on the scrapheap at Golden, B.C., after working for the Columbia River Lumber Company.

Seven years later, Greg Newbold said the scheme was an expensive failure and described it as "another wreck on the scrapheap of abandoned fads of criminal rehabilitation."

But as he spoke, the mess created by the Downing Street duo was anything but fine, as thousands more were thrown on the scrapheap in Britain's deepening recession.

It is important to have a constructive, practical attitude at this time, and not simply regard oneself as being 'on the scrapheap', as for most people there are still many good years ahead.

So you're admitting that the kids who aren't inclined to try and 'outdo' one another all the time or who don't have as much ability are left on the scrapheap by you?